Scribes Valley Publishing

Publisher info

Scribes Valley was founded on the idea that most "big" publishing houses have lost sight of their original purpose: to produce great, entertaining works while giving exposure to writers who have something to say. Instead, they concentrate all efforts on large profit margins and handle only those authors with the best commercial demographics. If you didn't have a bestseller last year, they don't want to even look at you.

Which leaves us to wonder how many writing geniuses have been left in the dust, their aspirations squelched, because they didn't have the right agent, didn't know the cousin of a friend who married the daughter of a publisher, or weren't given the encouragement to pursue their talents?

We at Scribes Valley realize there is an enormous well of talent in the writing world. Thousands of authors who pour their soul into each word and create works of art, yet largely go unnoticed.

Those are the writers we're looking for. Sure, we wouldn't mind being successful in the profit department, but that's not our main objective. To produce publications that entertain, make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, and brighten your world even for just a moment, THAT's our objective.

We promise to bring you the best writing talent there is and present it in a way that is more a showcase than "just a book."

Greetings, and thank you for coming along on our journey of a lifetime to the uncharted locality of Elsewhere. We’ll be leaving soon, so please take a seat and relax. We don’t stand on formalities here, so kick off your shoes and make yourself comfortable. The actual travel time to Elsewhere is brief—it’s just an imagination away—and our ride will be extremely smooth and easy.

The world is on a fast track. Everyone seems to be rushing toward something, but not really sure what it is. We want everything NOW, not later. Wait, anticipate, and relax are words we don't want to consider. How sad. It's time to leave the wide and rushing highway, open a good book, and TAKE THE PATH to that elusive place called Elsewhere. Re-discover your imagination; it has missed you!

We should all have one—a special place where we get away from the world. A place where distractions are kept to a minimum, worries and cares are forgotten, and an endless cornucopia of imagination is ours for the taking. A place where we can open a book, open our minds, and be transported elsewhere. A reading place!

Lolly Candolin can deal with having no friends and a drug-addicted mother, but her alcoholic, lawyer father is intolerable. At her ultimatum to quit the bottle, he hurls her cat-and best friend-off a levee into a gypsy camp. Secretly searching for Bo, Lolly finds not only new friends, but murder and a terrible choice. Should she save an innocent man's life, or finally win her father's love?